The acquisition of telicity in the native language

Abstract

The aims of the present thesis are to review the linguistic area of aspect and telicity and to investigate the acquisition of telicity in Greek. Telicity lies at the syntax-discourse interface and it is compositionally determined by the aspectual class of the verb, morphological aspect and the presence/absence of object and particles. Aspect in Greek is a grammaticalized, interpretable feature interacting with argument structure and interpretation and is morphologically expressed in a binary way, namely perfective and imperfective. For the purposes of our research, we assumed that the mapping between syntax and arguments is mediated by grammatical aspect and we adopted an endpoint approach to telicity. According to the endpoint account, a sentence is interpreted as telic if the event is represented as having an endpoint beyond which the event cannot continue. The structures, we examined, include a specific object or goal as possible manifestations of an endpoint. The endpoint’s visibil ...
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DOI
10.12681/eadd/29919
Handle URL
http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/29919
ND
29919
Alternative title
Η κατάκτηση της τελικότητας στη μητρική γλώσσα
Author
Kaltsa, Maria (Father's name: Andreas)
Date
2012
Degree Grantor
Aristotle University Of Thessaloniki (AUTH)
Committee members
Τσιμπλή Ιάνθη-Μαρία
Παπαδοπούλου Δέσποινα
Αγαθοπούλου Ελένη
Αναστασιάδη-Συμεωνιδη Άννα
Ματθαιουδάκη Μαρίνα
Λαβίδας Νικόλαος
Αλεξίου Θωμαή
Discipline
Humanities and the Arts
Languages and Literature
Other Humanities
Keywords
Telicity; ASPECT; First language acquisition
Country
Greece
Language
English
Description
234 σ., tbls., fig., ch., ind.
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